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All the world in your pocket: test-driving the online VSI books series | @GrrlScientisthttps://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2013/sep/27/libraries-digital-media
Yet another amazing addition to digital publishing: Oxford's wonderful Very Short Introductions (VSI) series is now available electronically by subscription to your library<p>I just learned that Oxford University Press's Very Short Introductions (VSI) series that I love so much is now <a href="http://www.veryshortintroductions.com/">available online to libraries</a> throughout the world. If you are a librarian, you can get a <a href="http://www.oup.com/online/freetrials/">free 30-day access to the VSI series</a> when you register for an <a href="http://www.veryshortintroductions.com/page/how-to-subscribe">online subscription for your institution</a>. </p><p>Thanks to the wonderful VSI publicist, Chloe, I was given few days' free access to this database, where I am poking around at this very moment. Basically, almost all of the excellent VSI series are now digitised and available online. Each chapter of each VSI book can be viewed on your electronic devices as a single document where it appears as a single page. Each document includes the site's topics index, the author's name and the book and chapter titles, publication date, ISBN, an abstract and DOI – important for citations. Images are embedded in the text, and page numbers from the print edition are indicated. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2013/sep/27/libraries-digital-media">Continue reading...</a>ScienceBooksEducationLibrariesFri, 27 Sep 2013 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2013/sep/27/libraries-digital-mediaPhotograph: GettyIn 2011 about 150m phone calls made to government services could have been avoided if the online service were better. Photograph: GettyPhotograph: GettyIn 2011 about 150m phone calls made to government services could have been avoided if the online service were better. Photograph: GettyGrrlScientist2013-09-27T10:00:00ZOvercoming technical problems for accessing vital research – suggestions? | @GrrlScientisthttps://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2012/sep/25/2
Technical problem: how to maintain a large and freely accessible research library for use by an international group of researchers?<p>I have a technical problem that I need your help with. I am a member of an international group of researchers that maintains a research library of more than 1500 PDFs that are accessible to all its members. These PDFs consist of research papers, white papers, book chapters and some grey literature that are important to our work that have been written by the group members as well as by researchers, government agencies and other professionals outside of our group. This library is vital to our work since some of us are in countries where these PDFs are not easily accessible or are too expensive to get. Currently, we use Dropbox to maintain our library but there are two problems we have battled over the years: </p><p>Problem one: unless each individual pays for their own Dropbox subscription, our individual accounts are constantly overloaded and straining from the size of this library. I know mine is!</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2012/sep/25/2">Continue reading...</a>ScienceBooksLibrariesTue, 25 Sep 2012 09:03:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2012/sep/25/2Photograph: Photograph: Michael Mandiberg (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States)Data Base (sculpture). Words cut into an Oxford English Dictionary using a laser. Photograph: Photograph: <a href="http://www.mandiberg.com/" rel="nofollow">Michael Mandiberg</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/" rel="nofollow">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States</a>)Photograph: Photograph: Michael Mandiberg (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States)Data Base (sculpture). Words cut into an Oxford English Dictionary using a laser. Photograph: Photograph: <a href="http://www.mandiberg.com/" rel="nofollow">Michael Mandiberg</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/" rel="nofollow">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States</a>)GrrlScientist2012-09-25T09:03:00Z